As you’ve no doubt heard, as of today, the WoW we once knew is gone forever. Replacing it is WoW: The Re-Imagining, which brings with it new zones, updating questing, and all that blahbittyblah — you’ve heard it already. The important thing to take away is that this is probably the most exciting thing to …
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Where LotRO’s Cash Shop Goes Wrong
This has already been said before, but it’s worth saying again: the problem with F2P is that it encourages developers usher you into a store rather than revise broken mechanics. LotRO is guilty, plain and simple, but let me elaborate. For those of you who don’t play the game, a big part of LotRO’s character …
Exchanging Server Communities For Game Communities
Green Armadillo had an interesting post up yesterday where he discusses the coming battlegroup merges in WoW. He points out that it’s another step closer to global servers and I couldn’t agree more. One of the cons he mentions, amongst several others, has to do with server communities becoming less meaningful. My first reaction similar …
[Quotes] Are Video Games Harmful?: A Book in My School’s Library
I got called in to sub this morning and, by an unfortunate miscommunication, I wound up with a good hour to spend in the school library. Now, I grew up in a library (my grandmother was a librarian) and I absolutely LOVE them. I can spend hours just perusing through and checking out whatever happens …
The Multiverse – Episode #31: “They’re Barely Even Games”
Happy Pre-Black Ops, Folks! Don’t let that mislead you. We don’t talk about Black Ops on this show; I’m just excited. There was a lot of great news this past week, MMO and gaming in general, so we thought we’d take a show and break it all down for you. There’s lots of great MMO …
Disassembling Good Quest Design
As I’ve gotten more involved with LotRO again, I’ve started to think more about what makes a good or bad quest. As I mentioned in a previous post, when I first came back I was deep within the reaches of Angmar, what was at one time considered LotRO’s end game. I couldn’t stand the zone …
On LotRO, Turbine Points, and Kindle 3
This week has been a good mix of excitement and frustration. Exctration? Definitely exctration. See, I got back into LotRO for the first time in forever only to notice that I haven’t been getting my monthly allotment of TP. As it turns out, there’s quite a few lifetimers also suffering from this problem. There’s probably …
WAR’s Purchase Packs are the Heralds of F2P
Important Update: From the FAQ, it appears that the level up item can only be redeemed once per account. I’ll be interested to see if there’s a catch of some kind but, by the looks of it, it’s not as bad as it first seemed (thanks Werit!). I hope they update the product page soon …
LotRO: She’s Kind of Like THAT Ex, Isn’t She?
I’m returning from my mini blog-cation to bring you this sexy, sexy post. Now, back to that shadowy corner by the fire… Take a look at the banner up top. See that burly guy talking about zombies or some such? That, my friends, is a dear old friend of mine born from the lands of …
Dev Insights on FFXIV’s Upcoming Fixes
a. MMORPG
November 13, 2010
by Chris "Syeric" Coke
FFXIVcore has a great translation up of an interview Square Enix did with Japanese site 4Gamer. It gives a lot of interesting insights into how aware they are of the problems and what they’re doing to fix them. The questions seem like they’re pulled straight from the community and the answers are fairly candid, so …
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